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Chancellor

The Vice-Chancellor at SLIIT provides leadership in governance, strategic direction, and institutional growth, while overseeing academic and administrative operations to ensure excellence in education, research, and student experience.

Professor Lakshman Ratnayake is the Chancellor and Chairman of SLIIT, bringing over 45 years of experience in higher education and engineering. Prior to this role, he served as Chairman and Senior Professor of Civil Engineering from April 2014. Before joining SLIIT, he held several key positions at the University of Moratuwa, including Senior Professor, Head of the Department of Civil Engineering (1989-1994), and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering (1995-2001). Throughout his academic career, Prof. Ratnayake also held professorial positions at the University of Calgary, Canada, and Utah State University, USA, during his sabbaticals. He was honored as an Emeritus Professor by the University of Moratuwa in 2014.

He served as Vice Chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC) from 2001 to 2006 and held the presidency of both the Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka (IESL) in 2002 and the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) in 2004. He also led two World Bank-funded higher education projects from 2004 to 2014.

Prof. Lakshman Ratnayake

Chancellor | Chairman | Professor

Message from the Chancellor

SLIIT is a world-class degree-awarding institute delivering a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Computing, Business, Engineering, Architecture, Quantity Surveying, Humanities and Sciences. Students at SLIIT benefit from a state-of-the-art teaching and learning environment and modern purpose-built facilities. The new fourteen-storey academic building and Hospitality Management School are our latest additions. Our Degrees programmes are approved by the University Grants Commission and the Ministry of Higher Education in Sri Lanka. In addition to our degrees, SLIIT offers foreign degree programs with our partner universities. Our affiliations with prestigious foreign universities in the UK, Australia, the US and Canada have given students many career pathways to gain world-class degrees at a very reasonable cost. Our internationalization efforts have attracted students from Australia, Asia and Africa to our campuses at Malabe and Kollupitiya. Further, this will enrich the mixed cultural experience that SLIIT offers. 
A key strategy of the institute is to lay emphasis on research-focus teaching in all our disciplines. We foster a vibrant research culture through active research groups led by senior academics to meet this objective. Our fully-fledged campus at Malabe has been ranked as Sri Lanka’s best non-state Higher Education Institute by the LMD. We strive to provide our students a comprehensive education system which introduces them to the frontiers of knowledge and provides them with the skills and disciplines necessary to meet the challenges of their chosen careers.

We Work Hard To Prepare Every Student For Their Professional Life